Εμφανίζονται 2 τίτλοι με αναζήτηση: Αρχαίες πηγές για το τοπωνύμιο: "ΑΚΡΟΚΟΡΙΝΘΟΣ Κάστρο ΚΟΡΙΝΘΟΣ".
Ακροκόρινθος είναι η κορυφή του βουνού που βρίσκεται πάνω από την Κόρινθο. Σύμφωνα με την παράδοση, ο Ηλιος μάλωνε γι' αυτή με τον Ποσειδώνα. Ο Βριάρεως τελικά έδωσε τον Ακροκόρινθο στον Ηλιο και εκείνος με τη σειρά του στην Αφροδίτη (Παυσ. 2,4,6).
The situation of the city (of Corinth),
as described by Hieronymus and Eudoxus and others, and from what I myself saw
after the recent restoration of the city by the Romans, is about as follows: A
lofty mountain with a perpendicular height of three stadia and one half, and an
ascent of as much as thirty stadia, ends in a sharp peak; it is called Acrocorinthus,
and its northern side is the steepest; and beneath it lies the city in a level,
trapezium-shaped place close to the very base of the Acrocorinthus. Now the circuit
of the city itself used to be as much as forty stadia, and all of it that was
unprotected by the mountain was enclosed by a wall; and even the mountain itself,
the Acrocorinthus, used to be comprehended within the circuit of this wall wherever
wall-building was possible, and when I went up the mountain the ruins of the encircling
wall were plainly visible. And so the whole perimeter amounted to about eighty-five
stadia. On its other sides the mountain is less steep, though here too it rises
to a considerable height and is conspicuous all round. Now the summit has a small
temple of Aphrodite; and below the summit is the spring Peirene, which, although
it has no overflow, is always full of transparent, potable water. And they say
that the spring at the base of the mountain is the joint result of pressure from
this and other subterranean veins of water--a spring which flows out into the
city in such quantity that it affords a fairly large supply of water. And there
is a good supply of wells throughout the city, as also, they say, on the Acrocorinthus;
but I myself did not see the latter wells. At any rate, when Euripides says,
"I am come, having left Acrocorinthus that is washed on all
sides, the sacred hill-city of Aphrodite,"
one should take "washed on all sides" as meaning in the depths of the mountain,
since wells and subterranean pools extend through it, or else should assume that
in early times Peirene was wont to rise over the surface and flow down the sides
of the mountain. And here, they say, Pegasus, a winged horse which sprang from
the neck of the Gorgon Medusa when her head was cut off, was caught while drinking
by Bellerophon. And the same horse, it is said, caused Hippu-crene to spring up
on Helicon when he struck
with his hoof the rock that lay below that mountain. And at the foot of Peirene
is the Sisypheium, which preserves no inconsiderable ruins of a certain temple,
or royal palace, made of white marble. And from the summit, looking towards the
north, one can view Parnassus
and Helicon--lofty, snow-clad
mountains--and the Crisaean
Gulf, which lies at the foot of the two mountains and is surrounded by Phocis,
Boeotia, and Megaris,
and by the parts of Corinthia
and Sicyonia which lie across
the gulf opposite to Phocis,
that is, towards the west. And above all these countries lie the Oneian Mountains,
as they are called, which extend as far as Boeotia
and Cithaeron from the Sceironian
Rocks, that is, from the road that leads along these rocks towards Attica.(Strabo
8.6.21)
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